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by epalmer 10y ago
I wonder if they misunderstood in ability to focus with mind wandering. Day dreaming, which is what I learned to call it when I was very young, is very beneficial to my sanity and creativity. I get all sorts of ideas when I let my mind go
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This is so meta and appropriate.
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Heros that invoke long days to save the company from a crisis are well rewarded. The rewards are increased by a factor of two if the hero sleeps under their desk in an old, moldy sleeping bag. The rewards are tripled if the hero created the
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It might be because of the strength of luu karam. 45,000+ points.
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Working for the bank at times was very fun. I love problem solving and getting work done across large and small teams. But in the end my passion waned and it became a well paid job that was a burden. Thanks for the thought provoking post
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by epalmer 10y ago
All good points. I'm not a NIH person so that has never been a problem. But I can be distracted by personal projects and work projects that are optional. I have been focusing my learn at work activity on: - learning the languages I use
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Really two reasons. 1) When I moved from IT to the Compliance side I did not realize what a bank examiner response project looks like in terms of timing and intensity. The examiners gave us a schedule and we had to fulfill on that schedule
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by epalmer 10y ago
Interesting article. I fall on the love work side. It is always nice to see situations from multiple frames of reference however. I left banking compliance almost 10 years ago to get back to web development and development management at a u
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My strengthsFinder assessment lists Life Long Learner as one of my top 5 strengths. And that is so true. I love learning new things to the point that if I'm not careful it can be dysfunctional. It is not so much about learning somethin
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I save important files explicitly with sublime text. I don't let to tools features drive my work habits.
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You make good points. I don't use them so much as to bother me. I code for a team size of one (me) so that gives me liberties that I might not take elsewhere.
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I frequently use TODOs and I don't get crazy if I don't go back and do all the TODOs. Some seem important at the time and become less so with age. Others become more important.
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Sorry about the typo. UBlock Origin. Not unlock origin. Darn autocorrect on my phone.
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The net in places is much worse than television. I might open several tabs when researching something or making sure that I read something of interest. Then all of a sudden I hear voices or sounds and have to go hunting them down. I use unl
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OP here - does anyone know if this is a true story?
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100M email accounts hacked?(tech.thaivisa.com)
2 points by epalmer 10y ago|1 comments
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Invalid certificate. Stay away from this site.
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> In an unexpected twist, we may even find that recognizing our luck increases our good fortune. Social scientists have been studying gratitude intensively for almost two decades, and have found that it produces a remarkable array of phy
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by epalmer 10y ago
I am humbled by your comments. > 1) Have the courage to try out new languages/frameworks fearlessly. (I am a bit of a coward here.) > 2) Be a finisher. If you can complete projects - even if they're small (actually, the smal
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I ran a few small development shops a long time ago and then went into ecommerce in a bank. Eventually I was a bank compliance advisor (business side) for the bank. No hands on IT and I was miserable. I was good at what I did, remediate s
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I don't develop more than 30% of my time but I love it none-the-less. I'm 62 years old. I find software architecting, developing, and operational troubleshooting to be fun, requires a holistic view of a problem set, requires crea
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by epalmer 10y ago
I've learned much more from my failures than my successes. Painful leaning but learning none-the-less. Once bid a SW development project at about $500,000 USD. Should have been more like $1,000,000. Negotiated with client to split
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by epalmer 10y ago
OP: Wish I had this list when I was 25 years old. Now at 62 I know too well this is good advice.
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Advice from some old people(imgur.com)
1 points by epalmer 10y ago|1 comments
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I just upgraded from being a long time iPhone user to a nexus6p and an delighted. Most of the UI makes more sense to me. The camera is amazing and the integration with Google apps as first class apps is a positive. Being able to voice comm
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This is very cool.
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My memory is failing me at 62 but back then the Ingres community was much more positive about the product than the Oracle community. At one point I was president of the North American Ingres User Group (Association, what did we cann it?).
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QUEL's problem was not that it was for the elite but that Relational Technology (later named Ingres) did not have any sense on how to market and sell Ingres RDBMS and promote QUEL. Oracle's strength has always been marketing and
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by epalmer 11y ago
In the US here. I just went from being an iphone user of long standing to a android user mostly because I want google apps over at least iphone apps. Especially the map apps. I did install firefox asap on my nexus 6p but I use chrome and f
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by epalmer 11y ago
We do 3 good things at the dinner table. What is good? 1) Why is it good? 2) Why did it happen? Some of them are a result of direct or indirect action. I studied more. Some are a result of external events. The sunset was fantastic because G

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